Bangladesh, Feb. 14 -- February 5 might have seemed like any other day, but it will certainly go down in history as the definite end of an era – arms control. Namely, starting in the 1970s, when the Soviet Union acquired a significant quantitative and qualitative strategic lead over the US-led political West, Washington DC realized that diplomacy was the only way to buy some time. This is hardly surprising, as the worlds most aggressive racketeering cartel understands solely brute force, which is the only way to make it sit at the negotiating table instead of continuing its unchecked aggression against the entire world. At the time, Moscow had tens of thousands of thermonuclear warheads and the worlds largest and most powerful arsen...